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Name one thing in this photo
- alwaysanagenda 7y agohair slug
- fastbeef 7y agoReminds me of this short story: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_(short_story) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLIT_(short_story)
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- ablation 7y agoThanks for posting this. I'd been trying to remember this short story's name for a while now, and seeing this image immediately put me in mind of the "basilisk"!
- gloflo 7y agoAnd Snow Crash!
- cpeterso 7y agoPeter Watts' science fiction novels Blindsight and Echopraxia include "vampires" that co-evolved with humans. The vampires' aversion to crosses is described as their brains "crashing" when visually processing right angles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echopraxia_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echopraxia_(novel)
- mgnn 7y agoHis is an interesting take on vampire lore in sci-fi. I remember they also have drugs to mitigate this condition, and allow them to live in cities: the anti-euclidean, or auntie-e.
- geoah 7y agoI still don't understand what vamps drew to crash humans.
- gdrift 7y agoHomo sapiens whedonum https://rifters.com/blindsight/vampires.htm https://rifters.com/blindsight/vampires.htm
- azundo 7y agoLevar Burton Reads has an episode with another David Langford short story featuring BLITs: https://art19.com/shows/levar-burton-reads/episodes/2a76c395-2325-4f0d-9404-4fe0e634e974 https://art19.com/shows/levar-burton-reads/episodes/2a76c395...
- styts 7y agoI'm positive I've recognised some items from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky poem.
- libertas 7y agoTrash
- tehsauce 7y agoHow was this made?
- lxe 7y agoDeep Dream
- growt 7y agoTable
- baroffoos 7y agoLooks like there is an ear in there
- peteretep 7y agoNear the teeth right?
- Jeaye 7y agoWall. Floorboards. Done.
- ochronus 7y agochaos
- pgl 7y agoPosted on Twitter from a thread on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/bghyv5/this_picture_is_designed_to_give_the_viewer_the/ https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/bghyv5/t... From the thread's title: > This picture is designed to give the viewer the simulated experience of having a stroke (particularly in the occipital lobe of the cerebral cortex, where visual perception occurs.) Everything looks hauntingly familiar but you just can't quite recognize anything
- philwelch 7y agoWell, now I know what's going on if the real world starts looking like that. And I bet it will sound like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
- el_benhameen 7y agoThis is one of the more delightful things I’ve come across on the internet. I always end up watching it all the way through. It’s remarkably catchy!
- TomMckenny 7y agoOh, that's Geordie.
- lqet 7y agoAfter a little therapy, it will sound like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrnkK2YEcE
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- matt-attack 7y agoThat song is brilliant. I think the video detracts a bit. I recommend just listening to it. My understanding is that it's entirely comprised of sampled clips. A triumph of sound engineering.
- erikstarck 7y agoPixels.
- lostmsu 7y agoA plastic bag
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- cbzry 7y agoThe thing at the top left looks like one of those mounted white pads that are used to display jewellery. https://www.jewelrysupply.com/assets/images/white-jewelry-ring-display-tray-rd2460.jpg https://www.jewelrysupply.com/assets/images/white-jewelry-ri...
- skilled 7y agoA sloth?
- julienreszka 7y agoyes on the bottom right
- bitherd 7y agoLooks like an assemblage of raffle prizes on a table, first prize is the weird wig in the foreground.
- pushpop 7y agoCoincidentally that’s what I saw as well except the wig was a children’s stuffed gorilla.
- tristanperry 7y agoI was thinking wedding gifts on a table, but same sort of thing.
- ShorsHammer 7y agoFollow up tweet by same person: "Wow this blew up check out <online pharmacy>" Please don't support this type of virality and profiteering. It's disgusting.
- simias 7y agoI think it's a joke, the link isn't even functional.
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- jml7c5 7y agoThe weird thing is that the url they use (for the sake of future readers, cvspharmacy.com ) is a broken site that just gives an error message, and has done so for a long time if the Wayback Machine is to be believed. Yet it at one point linked to the real CVS site. Presumably I've just been whooshed.
- OJFord 7y agoI get a lot of spam email from something @cvspharmacy, maybe the real CVS (which I didn't know about until now) forgot to renew the domain and it was hijacked by spammers. Just speculating of course.
- aehtyb 7y agoits a parody of people saying 'check out <my website>' when something goes viral.
- intertextuality 7y agoAre you suggesting "dumbass idiot 𓅩" with a bio of "shut the fuck hi" is a completely serious account? It's fairly obvious that it's a tongue-in-cheek joke, the linked url doesn't even work.
- ritchiea 7y agoAlso CVS is a big corporate pharmacy chain where people buy their toothpaste, etc. I doubt this is how CVS does their marketing
- koliber 7y agoMöbius ferret
- jann 7y agoI'm only reading about people getting really uncomfortable looking at this (on reddit). To me it did nothing, although I also couldn't recognise any of the items in the picture. Does anyone else have the same experience?
- n1000 7y agoI can't say why, but these kind of images are really disturbing to me. They give me a mixture of disgust and anxiety...
- jerf 7y agoI suspect there's more neurodiversity in our image processing stacks than we realize, and we've never before been able to observe it because all of our prior input was actually from a relatively small part of the possible image sample space that the real world can generate. I find this mildly amusing, but I do the surreal and bizarre for entertainment routinely anyhow. But for the same reasons that I seek out those sensations, I find myself having sympathy for those who rather than seeking them out for occasional changes of pace, can't get away from them as they are haunted every moment of the day and night. That would be much less fun, to put it exceedingly mildly.
- pure-awesome 7y agoYes, same here. Mild amusement but no discomfort. Had a discussion about it in a Facebook comment thread, and asked on or two of my friends. From my _very_ small sample size the number of neutral vs uncomfortable people seems about equal. I suspect the people who feel most uncomfortable are the most vocal. Would be interesting to do a poll.
- benj111 7y agoI found it unsettling. At first glance it's "oh easy I can easily spot something in there, like that... Oh... Uh?" I guess its been crafted to tickle the pattern matching part of the brain, so it looks familiar, but not? Like the uncanny valley?
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- Insanity 7y agoTo me this just looks like garbage. It's not disturbing, or all that weird.
- huffmsa 7y agoYeah but have you tried singling out an item and naming it?
- Insanity 7y agoYeah but garbage often gets broken. Containers that get broken, a dog-like pillow that is messed up,..
- jerf 7y agoI've got several "plastic bags". Some of them I can even identify as the crinkly colored type often used for wrapping present-type things. I can also give you something that is clearly a display board. I can't tell you what it's displaying beyond a generic "smudge", but it's clearly a display board, like for spoons or coins. Still, I don't argue the core point. Words are flexible and I can probably jam some word onto pretty much image, but I won't deny this image is quite resistant to that.
- huffmsa 7y agoCellophane is what I see for the plastic. And there's a cheese grater on the left
- joelS 7y agoMost likely generated from https://ganbreeder.app https://ganbreeder.app.
- distant_hat 7y agoIt looks like the output of a GAN that needs some more training.
- dsirola 7y agoI'll name the rabbit - Peko
- quickthrower2 7y agoIs this one of those deep learning images? I saw some musical notes in there. So framed music?
- ampersandy 7y agoI think "wall" is the only clear answer here :)
- labster 7y agoEven a person with dementia knows a big, beautiful wall when they see it.
- newb1578 7y agoWhen I was kid I had seizure and lost control of my body, I could see and hear people but couldn't respond or move my body. I told my wife to pull the plug if I ever loose consciousness and doctor's are iffy about my recovery. I rather terminate myself than ever go through the same experience.
- majortennis 7y agoToy Monkey, Plastic bag, wire grill thing
- codemusings 7y agoThis looks like a photo that was created using a Neural Network.
- Kaiyou 7y agoI'm seeing two dogs sitting at a bed.
- ChoGGi 7y agobaseboard
- etaioinshrdlu 7y agoIt appears to be made with GANbreeder but I haven't seen any hard evidence of that. Nevertheless highly likely. We should try not to physically mount a meatspace DDOS ... but the creator of GANbreeder is hosting a GANparty in Berkeley May 3rd.... https://ganbreeder.app/party https://ganbreeder.app/party GANbreeder in turn uses BigGAN.
- cortexio 7y agomy soul
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- sriku 7y agoVisual Jabberwocky? (Possibly made by a GAN?) Here is Alice on Jabberwocky ... “It seems very pretty,” she said when she had finished it, “but it’s rather hard to understand! … Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas–only I don’t exactly know what they are!”
- dalbasal 7y agoPerfect analogy. This image is a visual nonsense poem... or would be if it were more poetic. It's fascinating to me. Both feel like they take my brain to the threshold of understanding and then it just gets stuck.
- oska 7y agoI disagree that it's a 'perfect analogy'. Jabberwocky is a poem created by a human that, while it contains made-up nonsense words, still makes sense. (The hero seeks out a fearsome monster, fights it, is victorious and is lauded for his victory on his return). The poem is aesthetically pleasing and intentionally playful in containing an element of nonsense but not too much. This picture, on the other hand, is nothing like a 'visual nonsense poem' for me. It's artificially generated and not aesthetically pleasing. It's mildly disconcerting and beyond that, uninteresting.
- vanderZwan 7y agoThe way you phrase this suggests an unawareness of the fact that one comes to aesthetic judgement through interpretive frames, which are formed through personal experience and knowledge, and therefore express your aesthetic interpretations as more factual than they are. I recommend Talk about a Painting: A Cognitive Developmental Analysis by Michael Parsons, can be found online easily.
- EamonnMR 7y agoWhat scares me about the responses is that this appears to be the first GAN-output that many people have seen. This does not bode well for people being able to recognize this sort of thing, should that become important (spotting 'this person does not exist' profile pictures for bots, etc.)
- Liquix 7y agoDo you believe this kind of thing should be/is detectable if you're looking for it hard enough? This is pretty realistic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSLJriaOumA&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSLJriaOumA&feature=youtu.be
- EamonnMR 7y agoThere's an arms race between we humans learning to spot the signs of GAN-generated images and the GANs getting more accurate. I'm not sure who's destined to win, but my money's on the GANs. I thought we had more time.
- rangibaby 7y agoWow! If I pay too much attention to the background junk in dreams sometimes it looks like this. Plausible from a distance, but utter nonsense on closer inspection.
- ThinkingGuy 7y agoI have the same experience if I try to pick up a book and read it in a dream. I recognize pages and text in front of my eyes, and can even derive some ideas from it, but I'm unable to decode the actual letters and words.
- micheljansen 7y agoA while ago, I had a migraine with stroke-like symptoms in the other direction: I could form thoughts in my head, but could only get a garbled mess out of my mouth. As a knowledge worker whose most important asset is his brain, this was one of the most terrifying experiences in my life.
- Mirioron 7y agoI've (probably) had a ministroke (TIA). What surprised me is that typing was affected in the same way for me. In my mind I made a coherent sentence with words, but when I read back what I wrote, I understood that it was a garbled mess. I tried again, failed, and became frustrated. The crazy part to me was that I realized something was wrong, but it never occurred to me to ask for help. I tried to stubbornly keep working. I was trying to set up IIS at the time. I knew what I was roughly doing, but I kept forgetting what I was specifically doing. Reading those chat logs reminds me that even my own brain can fail me.
- bovermyer 7y agoRelevant: https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight?language=en https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_strok...
- micheljansen 7y agoYou should really get that checked out if you haven’t already. A TIA can be a precursor to a full on stroke or otherwise have lasting consequences. An MRI can confirm all is good in your brain.
- Mirioron 7y agoThat was years ago and I haven't had health insurance in a long time now. Nothing has happened, so far though. Funnily enough, life did actually go downhill after that. I never thought that it was related, but in the half a year to a year that followed it, I dropped out of school and left work. I haven't really been able to put the pieces together since. It's as though I have no motivation to do anything long term. I kind of doubt it's related though. One day I'll get it check out though.
- JazCE 7y agoGuess I'm a robot then.
- pertminus 7y agoWall
- dtujmer 7y agoA fipple, two gonzies, a stib, borquet and tinch, and I think I also see a couple of goffels
- seaish 7y agoLots of this has been done in language, like the Rockwell Retro Encabulator (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w) and Plumbus (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMJk4y9NGvE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMJk4y9NGvE)
- 99052882514569 7y agoSounds like the industrial piping mumbo-jumbo in The Patriot[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_(TV_series)
- Andrex 7y agoThe song "Prisencolinensinainciusol" has a similar effect: it's meant to sound exactly like American English to non-native speakers, but is actually just gibberish. Works amazingly well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VsmF9m_Nt8
- theandrewbailey 7y agoAll mostly made of plastic.
- js8 7y agoUnfortunately, but understandably, there are no worches and zits, they have already been destroyed earlier: https://english.lem.pl/works/novels/the-cyberiad/146-how-the-world-was-saved https://english.lem.pl/works/novels/the-cyberiad/146-how-the...
- tcgv 7y agoI wonder if that's how new born babies see the world, before they're able to recognize objects and their environment.
- jerf 7y agoI think it's fair to say "no". We have a trained neural net, like the thing that generated this, and this image confounds it with pathological input, so we experience a difference between this image and normal reality. A baby doesn't have very many such trained networks (we do actually come with a few, such as a network that detects faces, but not many), so this wouldn't particularly register to a young baby as strange at all. Or, to put it another way, we normally have experience A and this picture is giving us experience B, but the baby doesn't have the neural nets set up to support either such experience, and so has experience Zero, which we can't match by having B.
- zakki 7y agoSomebody replied it with a clear picture: https://mobile.twitter.com/reneabythe/status/1120805869225168896 https://mobile.twitter.com/reneabythe/status/112080586922516...
- afro88 7y agoI saw this used in a meme yesterday, and I was torn between it being something GAN generated and a blurry picture of a hoarders room filled with bags of rubbish
- rossenberg79 7y agoDoes anyone know how this image was produced? Is it a filter of some kind applied over a real world image? Maybe could be done on a video? This would be great for a Lovecraftian horror movie like Birdbox, when you want to give a glimpse of what indecipherable monster the characters are looking at just before they go crazy and kill themselves.
- piqufoh 7y agoI suspect it's been generated from the generator part of a GAN (Generative Adversarial Network); you get two ML algorithms - one to pick real from fake pictures (a classifier) and one to generate fake pictures (the generator) - and then pit them against each other. I wonder if this image is possibly a high quality generative example that the classifier failed to identify as 'fake'. Also - the generator probably uses an autoencoder to generate the images, which might explain the 'how' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoencoder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoencoder. I hope that explanation wasn't too dull!
- r0bbbo 7y agoThis is what Microsoft Cognitive Services saw: Objects [ { "rectangle": { "x": 346, "y": 321, "w": 333, "h": 417 }, "object": "mammal", "parent": { "object": "animal", "confidence": 0.719 }, "confidence": 0.716 } ] Tags [ { "name": "wall", "confidence": 0.9889654 }, { "name": "indoor", "confidence": 0.9775573 }, { "name": "doll", "confidence": 0.9775573 }, { "name": "person", "confidence": 0.966689169 }, { "name": "toy", "confidence": 0.5887871 }, { "name": "collection", "confidence": 0.535430968 }, { "name": "bear", "confidence": 0.432904869 }, { "name": "christmas", "confidence": 0.351226926 }, { "name": "animal", "confidence": 0.350886434 }, { "name": "family", "confidence": 0.3459218 } ] Description { "tags": [ "indoor", "table", "sitting", "food", "dog", "woman", "black", "bear", "holding", "standing", "man", "room", "people", "bed", "group", "stuffed", "red", "kitchen" ], "captions": [ { "text": "a group of stuffed animals sitting on top of a table", "confidence": 0.764803648 } ] }
- jschwartzi 7y agobetter than I could do. I can't make hide nor hair of it.
- dhritzkiv 7y agoIs it really "better" if the image is simulated nonsense? Better would be conceding that nothing is truly decipherable.
- tabtab 7y agoGobbledyGook: confidence = 99.9937%
- firethief 7y agoNow that I look at it again, there definitely is a wall in the back left. MCS succeeded where I failed because I guess I have an implicit "walls aren't interesting" filter that threw out the only positively identifiable object.
- patrickmcnamara 7y agoHere's the top ten things Amazon Rekognition saw: Furniture - 94.8 %, Apparel - 93.8 %, Clothing - 93.8 %, Home Decor - 93.6 %, Table - 85.3 %, Pet - 77.9 %, Mammal - 77.9 %, Cat - 77.9 %, Animal - 77.9 %, Toy - 67.9 % It's surprisingly confident.
- brisky 7y agoShowed this photo for my 4.5 year old son. I thought he might identify some objects since kids can be creative. However he looked at it for 1 second and just said that he sees nothing.
- spacejunk 7y agoIt's funny reading the comments in here; when this first got retweeted onto my twitter timeline I thought it was just a picture of someone's dressing table and the tweet was a joke about (lots of) men not being able to recognise makeup products ...
- intrasight 7y agoI guess it depends what you mean by "thing",. I see a roundish thing, a squareish thing, a gridish thing, a softish thing. But they are all "ish" because not real things.
- sengstrom 7y agoI name the thing with the nose Bruno.
- factsaresacred 7y agoThis visualizes how too much¹ ketamine feels². ---------- ¹ Any is too much ² https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=k%20hole https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=k%20hole
- petraeus 7y agois this the same as me randomizing a sentence, such as "satboma.ereegeiafudsuuedlVoiieelelglaesldnu nuorascrluc eip ttelalf rpoima s smudb.loo .r.c ue eu. mtgde mmea i leno undcisuattlicuoM ete Dimr isaaci nriirslraeunbpo abf mavuoD elneaact psg eunn mrlA m taiinccltnd oisnnnniltnt" and then asking you to find the words?
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- ericblues 7y ago"That doesn't look like anything to me."
- tabtab 7y agoEasy, it's Cousin It's beauty salon. Cousin It is balding a bit.